L'esperimento di John B. Calhoun con i suoi topi rivela alcuni problemi legati alla sovrappopolazione. Sia il dibattito politico che il mondo della fantascienza troveranno nelle sue conclusioni la conferma di un futuro apocalittico.
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FONTI
Population Density and social pathology (1962)
https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1962-calhoun.pdf
Death Squared: the explosive growth and demise af a mouse population (1973)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1644264/pdf/procrsmed00338-0007.pdf
Escaping the laboratory
https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/22514/1/2308Ramadams.pdf
Behavioral Sink
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
Articoli riassuntivi
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2016/mar/23/science-ballard-high-rise-animal-research-pathological-overcrowding
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/19/the-researcher-who-loved-rats-and-fueled-our-doomsday-fears/
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wiles.php
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-doomed-mouse-utopia-that-inspired-the-rats-of-nimh
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2018/01/11/the-falls-of-1972-john-b-calhoun-and-urban-pessimism/
Zero Population Growth Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/04/archives/each-change-has-vast-impact-birth-rate.html
I predatori si autoregolano
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/do-big-carnivores-practice-birth-control
Articolo di critica alle teorie dell'auto-regolazione/limitazione della riproduzione
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03014223.2016.1205635
Cina e la politica dell'unico figlio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China
https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00335.x
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-unforeseen-social-effects-of-chinas-one-child-policy
Frammento di documentario con immagini originali dell'esperimento
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdgrD1VFx6k
today I found out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m7X-1V9nOs
